Finding the best poker tournaments either in your home area or as you travel has always been complicated. Identifying the day and time, buy-in amount and some basic info about local tournaments may simply be a matter of checking out PokerAtlas. However, whether there will be 120 players or 7 when you show up to…
We visited the first incarnation of One-Eyed Jack’s poker room back on our Tampa Bay vacation in February 2020. At that time, One-Eyed Jack’s was housed in the old Sarasota Kennel Club. And when we say old, we mean OLD. The facility was run down, dingy, and smelled of mold. It was dark, with low…
BestBet Orange Park is one of three BestBet properties in northeastern Florida. We previously reviewed BestBet Jacksonville, and BestBet St. Augustine. BestBet Orange Park is the oldest of the three properties, and is really showing its age. One of many Florida poker rooms that started life as a race track, Orange Park still hosts an…
BestBet St. Augustine is one of three BestBet properties in northeastern Florida. We previously reviewed BestBet Jacksonville, and have also visited BestBet Orange Park recently (review to come). BestBet St. Augustine is the newest of the three properties, having just opened at the end of 2022. As such, it’s clean, shiny, and attractive inside and…
More than five years ago, Paul and I created PokerPilgrims to detail our hopes and dreams as we planned for a year-long poker pilgrimage. While we were both poker players at that time, work and family obligations limited our travel time and our ability to play poker outside our home region of New England. We…
Live! Casino Philadelphia poker room had us very excited given our excellent experience at its sister site in Maryland. We also had a very positive experience at Rivers Casino Philadelphia the day before. On the Monday morning that we dropped in for a bounty tournament, expectations were running high. Unfortunately, our experience did not meet…
The Rivers Casino Philadelphia poker room is one of three large rooms in the Philadelphia area. We were in Philadelphia for a few days recently and decide to play a Sunday morning/afternoon tournament at Rivers. The casino was a bit of a mystery to us. They consistently get several tables of low-stakes cash games and…
We have recently begun sharing information on our various poker road trips. In 2021 we took a poker road trip to Las Vegas, and then we built another poker road trip through Florida, which we will be partially revisiting this winter. Recently we shared our poker road trip through Maryland. Living in central New England,…
